ISIS Didn't Do Most of the Killing, Yazidis Note

Everyone is familiar with the current narrative of a bloody crackdown on the Yazidi minority in northern Iraq after the ISIS takeover of the area around Sinjar, but it didn’t go nearly how most of us envision.

NY Times reporter Alissa Rubin reported much the same thing over the weekend in her account of a helicopter crash on Mount Sinjar, which doesn’t exactly jibe with the hysteria about ISIS “targeting” the Yazidi minority.

They were scarcely targeted by ISIS at all, because as ISIS moved into the region, it erupted with internal violence. The Yazidi community, mostly situated in Northern Iraq, is now looking at leaving the area forever, not so much because of ISIS, but because their neighbors are liable to keep attacking them when the opportunity presents itself.

u don't have to be a military strategist to know 10,000 ISIS guys can't conquer and SECURE entire regions of syria & iraq in quick time.__bbc reporters leading toyota convoys along highways for broadcast purposes, with no concern for their own safety, said a lot.__all that is happening is Bremer's de-baathification of Iraq, outlined in CPA Order 1 which entered into force on 16 May 2003, is being reverse-engineered, with Maliki being blamed & taking the fall for what was, in fact, a US/UK decision. __now, it's onwards with the break-up of Iraq.